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A few weeks ago, Swedish police seized the domain name of one of the largest local private torrent trackers, Rarat.org. Following the investigation of PayPal, the authorities managed to identify and arrest the prime target. To their surprise, he also happened to be an organizer of the largest computer festival in the world, Dreamhack.

A recent research sponsored by the Australian government has revealed a drop in piracy rates, largely attributed to improved availability of legal streaming alternatives. But the most interesting thing in the report is that the much reviled Internet pirates are often the best customers.

Mozilla’s Firefox introduced Firefox Focus – a new browser that offers iPhone users private web surfing. This was an unexpected move from the company that has often struggled against the forces of inertia.

According to Three mobile operator, customer information of over 130,000 subscribers has been compromised in a cyber security breach. All affected customers were being informed and assured that no financial information

The tech giant changed its mind and stopped disabling the accounts of customers who resold Google’s new Pixel phones. The decision was made after facing multiple complaints over Google’s imposition of a “digital death penalty” for a minor infraction. Google has already emailed users who had been banned and notified them that it had

The final version of the proposed “three strikes” anti-piracy code for Australian internet service providers (ISPs) has been published recently. Under the Copyright Notice Scheme code (PDF), residential Internet users that are found pirating content will be subject to a series of "escalating" warning notices from rights holders, sent via ISPs. The notices will warn users that they are infringing copyright, and that they will face legal action if they get three strikes recorded against their IP address -- that is, if they receive an Education, Warning and Final notice -- within a 12 month period. If a user gets three warning letters, or "strikes", in a 12-month period, ISPs will help copyright owners identify them for potential legal action after a hearing in a prescribed court. Up to 200,000 notices can be processed and sent each year. An industry code has to be in place by January 1